题目内容

A U.S man found 300 letters to God floating in the Atlantic Ocean last week. He said on Friday he would   1   them to a church instead of selling them on eBay following protests from religious people.

The letters , sent to a late Baptist clergyman (牧师), were   2   put in a sealed plastic shopping bag near a    3    in Atlantic, New Jersey.

Bill Lacovara, an insurance adjuster from Ventnor, New Jersey, said he got the bag while on a fishing trip last week.

The letters were     4     to the clergyman, who died in 2004. Someone cleaning his house may have   5   the bag, which Lacovara found about 100 miles (160km) from Cooper’s house.

They include one from a teenage girl asking God to    6  her for her wrongdoing, one from a prisoner who said he was    7    and someone had set a trap for him, and    8   from a man who wanted God’s help winning the lottery, according to media reports.

Lavovara said he could have    9   them on eBay for up to $15,000(7,889 pounds) according to his prediction of the compete price and would have given the money to charity. But he has changed his mind because he said the move caused     10    to some religious people.

“They said they were    11    in me, and I didn’t want to do something that’s going to create    12     results.” he told Reuters.

Some    13    him to burn the letters, throw them back in the ocean or give them to a church, Lacovara said.

Lacovara said about a dozen clergymen have offered to take the letters, and he is evaluating the    14   to make sure the letters don’t fall into the     15    hands.

1.      A. donate                          B. show            C. sell                     D. owe

2.      A. hurriedly                         B. privately         C. mysteriously   D. occasionally

3.      A. river                            B. lake                         C. hill           D. beach

4.      A. taken                B. offered         C. addressed     D. given

5.      A. collected              B. thrown         C. opened         D. destroyed

6.      A. forgive               B. punish        C. adjust          D. charge

7.      A. friendly                B. correct                 C. innocent        D. energetic

8.      A. others                         B. another       C. the other      D. one

9.      A. auctioned           B. bought                C. donated                   D. discounted

10.   A. damage              B. offence         C. injury         D. worry

11.   A. absorbed             B. involved       C. interested     D. disappointed

12.   A. final                  B. direct                   C. same         D. bad

13.   A. forced                B. urged                   C. questioned              D. pleased

14.   A. requests                        B. orders                 C. commands              D. invitations

15.   A. wrong                           B. poor                    C. tight                   D. firm

 

【答案】

 

   A

 C

 D

 C

 B

 A

 C

 D

  A          

 B

 D

 D

 B

 A

 A

【解析】 略

 

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请阅读下列应用文和相关信息,并按照要求匹配信息。

首先,请阅读下列关于名著简写本的介绍:

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58. Mike has just graduated from a high school. He got the highest score in his English exam and now he is very proud of his English. He prefers to write something that is abstract, especially stories written by authors who have won the Nobel Prizes.

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A 26-year-old Montreal man appears to have succeeded in his quest to barter a single, red paper clip(夹子) all the way up to a house. It took almost a year and 14 trades, but Kyle MacDonald has been offered a two-storey farmhouse in Kipling, Sask., for a paid role in a movie.

MacDonald began his quest last summer when he decided he wanted to live in a house. He didn’t have a job, so instead of posting a resumé, he looked at a red paper clip on his desk and decided to trade it on an Internet website. The response was immediate —a fish pen was offered for exchange. MacDonald then bartered the fish pen for a handmade doorknob from a potter in Seattle.

In Massachusetts, MacDonald traded the doorknob for a camp stove. He traded the stove to a U.S. soldier in California for a generator. Then he exchanged the generator for an “instant party kit” — an empty keg(小桶) and an illuminated Budweiser beer sign. MacDonald then traded the keg and sign for a snowmobile. He bartered all the way up to an afternoon with rock star Alice Cooper, a KISS snow globe and finally a paid role in a Corbin Bernsen movie.

“Now, I’m sure the first question on your mind is, ‘Why would Corbin Bernsen trade a role in a film for a snow globe? A KISS snow globe,’ MacDonald said on his website.”Well, Corbin happens to be arguably one of the biggest snow globe collectors on the planet.

Now, the town of Kipling, Sask., Canada, with a population of 1,100, has offered MacDonald a farmhouse in exchange for the role in the movie. The town is going to hold a competition for the movie role.

MacDonald said: “There’re people all over the world that are saying that they have paper clips clipped to the top of their computer, or on their desk or on their shirt, and it proves that anything is possible and I think to a certain degree it’s true.”

MacDonald, who has attracted international media attention in his quest, said the journey has turned out to be more exciting than the goal. “This is not the end. This may be the end of this part of the story, but this story will go on.”

1.The best title for this passage is “    ”.

A.A lucky paper clip    B. From poor to rich

C.A lucky young man   D. From paper clip to house

2.The underlined word in line 1 means     .

A. to get something for free    B. to sell something at a price

C. to sell goods on the Internet  D. to exchange goods for other goods

3.Which shows the correct order of the trades?

A. Paper clip?snow globe?snowmobile?house

B. Paper clip?keg of beer?doorknob?snowmobile

C. Paper clip?camp stove?snowmobile?movie role

D. Paper clip?keg of beer?camp stove?snowmobile

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A. All of his trades were done in his country.

B.A film role was offered due to Bernsen’s hobby.

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D. He intends to begin another quest on the Web.

 

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